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Notes:
* indicates a question for oral answer.
[R] indicates that the Member has declared a relevant interest.
Questions for oral answer not reached receive a written answer.
Supplementary questions will also be asked. Other Ministers may also answer.
+ indicates Government business.
Timings are indicative only.

At 2.30 p.m. Prayers

Afterwards

Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Social Security

*1 Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove):    If he will make a statement on his plans to reform the housing benefit system.

(107185)

*2 Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne):    If he will make a statement on the Government's policies towards pensioners.

(107187)

*3 Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):    What steps he is taking to improve the public's knowledge about pensions and saving for retirement.

(107188)

*4 Mr Chris Pond (Gravesham):    What is his estimate of the total savings to date to his Department as a result of the New Deal for Lone Parents; and what forecasts he has made of future savings.

(107189)

*5 Mr David Winnick (Walsall North):    If he will make it his policy to provide winter fuel payments for pensioners on a permanent basis.

(107191)

*6 Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East):    If he will make a statement on the housing benefit verification framework.

(107192)

*7 Mr Peter L. Pike (Burnley):    What representations he has received regarding time taken in dealing with housing benefit claims.

(107193)

*8 Mr Phil Hope (Corby):    If he will make a statement on the impact upon people in rural areas of proposals to computerise the benefits payment system.

(107195)

*9 Mr Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock):    What further measures he proposes to reduce family poverty in the next decade.

(107196)

*10 Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter):    What measures his Department has taken to reduce barriers in the benefits system to education for lone parents.

(107197)

*11 Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle):    What steps he is taking to help resolve the problems connected with mis-selling of SERPS.

(107198)

*12 Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot):    If he will make a statement on his proposals for reform of the Child Support Agency.

(107199)

*13 Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):    What steps he is taking to ensure that pensioners receive the benefits to which they are entitled.

(107200)

*14 Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow):    If he will list the functions of his Department in relation to those suffering from vibration white finger.

(107201)

*15 Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North):    What action he is taking to help people on low incomes make provision for their retirement.

(107202)

*16 Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow, Pollok):    What plans he has to increase the level of the minimum income guarantee for pensioners and to include a clawback element.

(107203)

*17 Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park):    If he will make a statement on his plans to launch a take-up campaign for those pensioners entitled to the minimum income guarantee.

(107204)

*18 Mr Tony Baldry (Banbury):    How he intends to promulgate stakeholder pensions.

(107205)

*19 Mr Bob Blizzard (Waveney):    What plans he has to help pensioners with small second incomes who do not qualify for benefits.

(107206)

*20 Mr Andrew Hunter (Basingstoke):    If he will report on progress in tackling housing benefit fraud.

(107207)

*21 Mr Peter Lilley (Hitchin and Harpenden):    If he will make a statement on trends in payments of jobseeker's allowance to those aged 18 to 24 years (a) between 1993 and 1996 and (b) since January 1998.

(107208)

*22 Sir Teddy Taylor (Rochford and Southend East):    What estimate he has made of the numbers of persons on disability benefits whose entitlement has been cancelled in the last year.

(107209)

*23 Mr Peter Viggers (Gosport):    What assessment he has made of the impact on savings by low earners of the introduction of the minimum income guarantee.

(107210)

*24 Sir David Madel (South West Bedfordshire):    When the new arrangements for contact between the public and the Child Support Agency at a local level will begin operating; and if he will make a statement.

(107211)

*25 Tom Cox (Tooting):    What measures he is taking with other government departments to meet the Government's objective of eliminating child poverty.

(107213)

*26 Mr Andrew George (St Ives):    What discussions he has had with banks regarding the proposed transfer of benefit payments to automated credit transfer between 2003-05.

(107214)

*27 Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon):    If he will make it his policy to ensure that every man and woman who reaches retirement age during the course of each winter will be entitled to a fuel payment.

(107215)

*28 Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):    What plans he has to speed up the payment of benefits to claimants in Norwich.

(107216)

*29 Mr Paul Goggins (Wythenshawe and Sale East):    What estimate he has made of the number of North West pensioners who are entitled to but not claiming the minimum income guarantee.

(107217)

*30 Mr Simon Hughes (North Southwark and Bermondsey):    What safeguards he will introduce to protect the welfare of the dependents of those who have had their benefit withdrawn.

(107218)

*31 Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South):    What representations he has received in the past 12 months from (a) voluntary organisations and (b) others on the impact of single room rent restrictions on young people aged under 25 years.

(107219)

*32 Mr John Healey (Wentworth):    If he will make a statement on the implementation of the ONE service pilots.

(107220)

*33 Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):    What recent representations he has received on his proposed reforms of the Child Support Agency; and if he will make a statement.

(107221)

*34 Kali Mountford (Colne Valley):    If he will make a statement about the ONE service pilots.

(107222)

*35 Helen Jones (Warrington North):    If he will make it his policy to ensure that the mobility component of disability living allowance is paid directly to those in residential care and not into the bank account of organisations running residential homes.

(107223)

*36 Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney):    If he will review the proposed clawback of benefits relating to the compensation payments being made to miners and miners' widows.

(107224)

At 3.30 p.m. Private Notice Questions (if any)
Ministerial Statements (if any)

Note: Provision has been made for a Business Motion to be moved at 10.00 p.m. (Standing Order No. 15).

Main Business

+  1   SOCIAL SECURITY    [until 10.00 p.m.]

Mr Secretary Darling
    That the draft Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2000, which was laid before this House on 31st January, be approved.

+  2   SOCIAL SECURITY (PENSIONS)
Mr Secretary Darling
    That the draft Guaranteed Minimum Pensions Increase Order 2000, which was laid before this House on 31st January, be approved.

    The Speaker will put the Questions on the above two Motions in the name of Mr Secretary Darling not later than 10.00 p.m. (Order of 2nd February).

At 10.00 p.m.

+  3   BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE    [No debate]

The Prime Minister
    That, at this day's sitting, the Motion in the name of Mr Secretary Straw relating to Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill (Procedure) may be proceeded with, though opposed, until half-past Eleven o'clock or the end of a period of one and a half hours after it has been entered upon, whichever is the later.

To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 15).

+  4   SEXUAL OFFENCES (AMENDMENT) BILL (PROCEDURE)
Mr Secretary Straw
Margaret Beckett

    That, if the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill be read a second time, no Order shall be made for the committal of the Bill and it shall be ordered to be read a third time upon a future day; and upon a Motion being made for Third Reading the Question thereon shall be put forthwith and may be decided, though opposed, after the expiration of the time for opposed business.

    Debate may continue until 11.30 p.m. or for 1.5 hours after its commencement, whichever is later, if the 10.00 p.m. Business Motion is agreed to.

+  5   CENSUS    [No debate]

Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer
    That the words in item 1 `indicating whether an individual form is being completed by that member', the words in item 2 `and relationship to householder or joint householder or to the first person mentioned in the return, and, as the case may be, where there are 5 or less persons in the household, the relationship to each of the previous persons mentioned in the return and where there are 6 or more persons in the household, the relationship of the sixth and subsequent persons to the two previously mentioned persons in the return', the words in item 6 `and if married whether first or subsequent subsisting marriage', items 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, the words in item 15 `or was on a Government sponsored training scheme', items 16, 18(c), 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 of Schedule 2, and items 1, 2 and 3 of Schedule 3 to the draft Census Order 2000, which was laid before this House on 10th January, be approved.

    The Speaker will put the Questions necessary to dispose of proceedings without debate (Order of 25th January).

+  6   COMPETITION    [No debate]

Mr Secretary Byers
    That the draft Competition Act 1998 (Land and Vertical Agreements Exclusion) Order 2000, which was laid before this House on 19th January, be approved.

To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 118(6)).

+  7   COMPETITION    [No debate]

Mr Secretary Byers
    That the draft Competition Act 1998 (Determination of Turnover for Penalties) Order 2000, which was laid before this House on 19th January, be approved.

To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 118(6)).

At the end of the sitting:

8   ADJOURNMENT

    Proposed subject: Her Majesty's Treasury's policy on financial incentives for aluminium recycling     (Helen Southworth).

    Debate may continue until 10.30 p.m. or for half an hour, whichever is later (Standing Order No. 9).

COMMITTEE MEETINGS

SELECT COMMITTEES

1   Public Accounts 4.30 p.m. Room 15 (public)

    Subject: Getting Best Value from the Disposal of Property

    Witness: Mr Peter Nutt, Chief Executive, Mr James Bradley, Divisional Director, Highways Agency

2   Committee of Selection 6.30 p.m. Room 13 (private)

[The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice.]

Written Questions tabled on Friday 4th February for answer today++

1
   Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon):    To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans she has to include in the next development White Paper the target of achieving global free trade by 2020.

(109240)

2
   Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South):    To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what progress the Environment Agency has made in implementing its action plan in response to the independent report on the Easter 1998 floods.

(109243)

3
   Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):    To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, when the Independent Scientific Group on Cattle Tuberculosis will publish its second report.

(109244)

4
   Mr Stephen Pound (Ealing North):    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he has made a decision about whether the UK should become a signatory to the UNIDROIT convention on the international return of stolen or illegally exported cultural objects.

(109245)

5
   Bridget Prentice (Lewisham East):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what proposals he has to amend his Departmental Expenditure Limits and running costs limits for 1999-2000.

(109270)

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Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Social Security
*1	Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): If he will make a statement on his plans to reform the housing benefit system.
	(107185)
*2	Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): If he will make a statement on the Government's policies towards pensioners.
	(107187)
*3	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): What steps he is taking to improve the public's knowledge about pensions and saving for retirement.
	(107188)
*4	Mr Chris Pond (Gravesham): What is his estimate of the total savings to date to his Department as a result of the New Deal for Lone Parents; and what forecasts he has made of future savings.
	(107189)
*5	Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): If he will make it his policy to provide winter fuel payments for pensioners on a permanent basis.
	(107191)
*6	Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): If he will make a statement on the housing benefit verification framework.
	(107192)
*7	Mr Peter L. Pike (Burnley): What representations he has received regarding time taken in dealing with housing benefit claims.
	(107193)
*8	Mr Phil Hope (Corby): If he will make a statement on the impact upon people in rural areas of proposals to computerise the benefits payment system.
	(107195)
*9	Mr Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): What further measures he proposes to reduce family poverty in the next decade.
	(107196)
*10	Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): What measures his Department has taken to reduce barriers in the benefits system to education for lone parents.
	(107197)
*11	Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): What steps he is taking to help resolve the problems connected with mis-selling of SERPS.
	(107198)
*12	Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): If he will make a statement on his proposals for reform of the Child Support Agency.
	(107199)
*13	Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): What steps he is taking to ensure that pensioners receive the benefits to which they are entitled.
	(107200)
*14	Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): If he will list the functions of his Department in relation to those suffering from vibration white finger.
	(107201)
*15	Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): What action he is taking to help people on low incomes make provision for their retirement.
	(107202)
*16	Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow, Pollok): What plans he has to increase the level of the minimum income guarantee for pensioners and to include a clawback element.
	(107203)
*17	Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): If he will make a statement on his plans to launch a take-up campaign for those pensioners entitled to the minimum income guarantee.
	(107204)
*18	Mr Tony Baldry (Banbury): How he intends to promulgate stakeholder pensions.
	(107205)
*19	Mr Bob Blizzard (Waveney): What plans he has to help pensioners with small second incomes who do not qualify for benefits.
	(107206)
*20	Mr Andrew Hunter (Basingstoke): If he will report on progress in tackling housing benefit fraud.
	(107207)
*21	Mr Peter Lilley (Hitchin and Harpenden): If he will make a statement on trends in payments of jobseeker's allowance to those aged 18 to 24 years (a) between 1993 and 1996 and (b) since January 1998.
	(107208)
*22	Sir Teddy Taylor (Rochford and Southend East): What estimate he has made of the numbers of persons on disability benefits whose entitlement has been cancelled in the last year.
	(107209)
*23	Mr Peter Viggers (Gosport): What assessment he has made of the impact on savings by low earners of the introduction of the minimum income guarantee.
	(107210)
*24	Sir David Madel (South West Bedfordshire): When the new arrangements for contact between the public and the Child Support Agency at a local level will begin operating; and if he will make a statement.
	(107211)
*25	Tom Cox (Tooting): What measures he is taking with other government departments to meet the Government's objective of eliminating child poverty.
	(107213)
*26	Mr Andrew George (St Ives): What discussions he has had with banks regarding the proposed transfer of benefit payments to automated credit transfer between 2003-05.
	(107214)
*27	Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): If he will make it his policy to ensure that every man and woman who reaches retirement age during the course of each winter will be entitled to a fuel payment.
	(107215)
*28	Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): What plans he has to speed up the payment of benefits to claimants in Norwich.
	(107216)
*29	Mr Paul Goggins (Wythenshawe and Sale East): What estimate he has made of the number of North West pensioners who are entitled to but not claiming the minimum income guarantee.
	(107217)
*30	Mr Simon Hughes (North Southwark and Bermondsey): What safeguards he will introduce to protect the welfare of the dependents of those who have had their benefit withdrawn.
	(107218)
*31	Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): What representations he has received in the past 12 months from (a) voluntary organisations and (b) others on the impact of single room rent restrictions on young people aged under 25 years.
	(107219)
*32	Mr John Healey (Wentworth): If he will make a statement on the implementation of the ONE service pilots.
	(107220)
*33	Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): What recent representations he has received on his proposed reforms of the Child Support Agency; and if he will make a statement.
	(107221)
*34	Kali Mountford (Colne Valley): If he will make a statement about the ONE service pilots.
	(107222)
*35	Helen Jones (Warrington North): If he will make it his policy to ensure that the mobility component of disability living allowance is paid directly to those in residential care and not into the bank account of organisations running residential homes.
	(107223)
*36	Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): If he will review the proposed clawback of benefits relating to the compensation payments being made to miners and miners' widows.
	(107224)

Main Business
+ 1	SOCIAL SECURITY *[until 10.00 p.m.]*
	Mr Secretary Darling That the draft Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2000, which was laid before this House on 31st January, be approved.
+ 2	SOCIAL SECURITY (PENSIONS)
	Mr Secretary Darling That the draft Guaranteed Minimum Pensions Increase Order 2000, which was laid before this House on 31st January, be approved. *The Speaker will put the Questions on the above two Motions in the name of Mr Secretary Darling not later than 10.00 p.m. (Order of 2nd February).*

+ 3	BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE *[No debate]*
	The Prime Minister That, at this day's sitting, the Motion in the name of Mr Secretary Straw relating to Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill (Procedure) may be proceeded with, though opposed, until half-past Eleven o'clock or the end of a period of one and a half hours after it has been entered upon, whichever is the later.
*To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 15).*

+ 4	SEXUAL OFFENCES (AMENDMENT) BILL (PROCEDURE)
	Mr Secretary Straw Margaret Beckett
	That, if the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill be read a second time, no Order shall be made for the committal of the Bill and it shall be ordered to be read a third time upon a future day; and upon a Motion being made for Third Reading the Question thereon shall be put forthwith and may be decided, though opposed, after the expiration of the time for opposed business. *Debate may continue until 11.30 p.m. or for 1.5 hours after its commencement, whichever is later, if the 10.00 p.m. Business Motion is agreed to.*
+ 5	CENSUS *[No debate]*
	Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer That the words in item 1 `indicating whether an individual form is being completed by that member', the words in item 2 `and relationship to householder or joint householder or to the first person mentioned in the return, and, as the case may be, where there are 5 or less persons in the household, the relationship to each of the previous persons mentioned in the return and where there are 6 or more persons in the household, the relationship of the sixth and subsequent persons to the two previously mentioned persons in the return', the words in item 6 `and if married whether first or subsequent subsisting marriage', items 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, the words in item 15 `or was on a Government sponsored training scheme', items 16, 18(c), 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 of Schedule 2, and items 1, 2 and 3 of Schedule 3 to the draft Census Order 2000, which was laid before this House on 10th January, be approved. *The Speaker will put the Questions necessary to dispose of proceedings without debate (Order of 25th January).*
+ 6	COMPETITION *[No debate]*
	Mr Secretary Byers That the draft Competition Act 1998 (Land and Vertical Agreements Exclusion) Order 2000, which was laid before this House on 19th January, be approved.
*To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 118(6)).*
+ 7	COMPETITION *[No debate]*
	Mr Secretary Byers That the draft Competition Act 1998 (Determination of Turnover for Penalties) Order 2000, which was laid before this House on 19th January, be approved.
*To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 118(6)).*

8	ADJOURNMENT
	Proposed subject: *Her Majesty's Treasury's policy on financial incentives for aluminium recycling* (Helen Southworth). *Debate may continue until 10.30 p.m. or for half an hour, whichever is later (Standing Order No. 9).*

COMMITTEE MEETINGS
SELECT COMMITTEES
1	Public Accounts	4.30 p.m.	Room 15 (public)
	Subject: Getting Best Value from the Disposal of Property
	Witness: Mr Peter Nutt, Chief Executive, Mr James Bradley, Divisional Director, Highways Agency
2	Committee of Selection	6.30 p.m.	Room 13 (private)
[The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice.]

Written Questions tabled on Friday 4th February for answer today++
1	Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans she has to include in the next development White Paper the target of achieving global free trade by 2020.
	(109240)
2	Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what progress the Environment Agency has made in implementing its action plan in response to the independent report on the Easter 1998 floods.
	(109243)
3	Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, when the Independent Scientific Group on Cattle Tuberculosis will publish its second report.
	(109244)
4	Mr Stephen Pound (Ealing North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he has made a decision about whether the UK should become a signatory to the UNIDROIT convention on the international return of stolen or illegally exported cultural objects.
	(109245)
5	Bridget Prentice (Lewisham East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what proposals he has to amend his Departmental Expenditure Limits and running costs limits for 1999-2000.
	(109270)